The Long Night (1989)

Original title

Długa noc

Directed by

Janusz Nasfeter

Genre

war film

Country

Poland

Runtime

1h 21m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Residents of a house in occupied Poland face difficult choices when one of them is a collaborator and another is hiding a Jewish person. The film was banned for over twenty years due to its depiction of anti-Semitism.

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What happens

Długa noc (English: The Long Night) is a Polish war film from 1967, directed by Janusz Nasfeter, based on the novel Noc by Wiesław Rogowski. The plot revolves around the dilemmas faced by the residents of a certain house in occupied Poland during World War II, where one of the inhabitants is revealed to be a collaborator with a partisan unit and a person hiding a Jew. Długa noc was one of the earliest "shelf films" – movies whose distribution was prevented by censorship during the communist regime. Created in an atmosphere of anti-Semitic sentiments, Nasfeter's film was not allowed to be shown until 1989. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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